Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-01
Sunday, Sept. 4, 1887, Mat. O.: 24-3f.

have and give aims, provide your
bags which wax not old, a
treasure in the heavens that faileth
not. where no thief approached
neither moth eorrupteth. For where
your treasure is there will your hesrt
be Also"
The Savior taught in the above
that money has its appoint
ed place in the manifestation and dis
tribution of love: that a man may
and ought to labor and plan wisely
in hope of reward to gather means
for the promotion of every b~eneficient
conception of providenc Il, and that
when a man uses money in that way,
the more he gains and disburses the
better. Not every man, not every
follower of Christ even will accept
this as his rule of life but. nothing is
more certain than that the Savior
gave such a precept to his disciples.
In view of this and that Christ mani
tested disposition to convince and
convert as well as. command, it will
be we'll for Sabbath School
teachers to point out carefully the
condition of heart that opposed
Chrlst's instructions, and reproduce
the arguments he used to counteract
and remove it. Some of those that
listened to the Savior evidently
thought that too great sacrifices were
being demanded and were therefore
considering, not how they might
glorify God, but how their future
wants were to be met, if they parted
with their subsistence and devoted it
to charity, and TO have insisted with
so much earnestness in learning from
Christ what they should eat, drink and
wear, if they obeyed his in%junctlons,
as to have made him conclude they
were forgetful that food and raiment
were not exceptions to the rule that
everything earthly had a principle Of
loss and decay attached to it: that
God alone had power to prolong life
and supply its needs: and that he
required as a condition for the exer-
else of that power selfdenying and
charitable service. To those that
we're without confidence in God be
put the significant question: (Which
of you can by any effort add a span
to his life?" At least some scholars
have thought that the best rem.
derlng for verse 81 and to the
writer such an Interpretation of il
falls in with the argument. After
directing attention to Gods care OF
birds that neither sowed, reaped Oh
gathered, the Savior inquired search.
ingly of those that were disposed to
reverse the order of Providence and
sacrifice life, at least eternal life, fol
the food and raiment that God de-
signed to protect and sustain exis.
,ence. care We not better than they?'
SIS not life more than meat and the
body than raiment?' Again he bids
them learn the symbolism of the
flowers. '"Consider," says he, "tht
lilies of the field, how they grow
they toll not. neither do they spin
and yet I say unto you that ever
Soloman in all his glory was not ar
rayed like one of these. Wherefore
if God sc clothe the grass of thu
field which to-day is and tomorrow
is cast into the oven, shall he no
much more clothe you. o, ye of lit
tie faith
Soloman was the wealthy son ant
successor of David, IN whom thu
kingdom of Israel was completed.
established and by whom the tempt
was built. He was SO sumptuously;fet
and magnificently a~ppareled that tn
Queen of Sheba tainted at the sigh
of his grandeur. The lilies painted
by the Almighty and used merely t.
bake bread were declared by Christ
however, to be more striking symbol
of Gods care than the gathering
and accumulations of Israel's ambl
tious sovereign, leading as they di'
to offenses of the gravest character
And finally that the tendency O
abandoning trust In God and resort
ing to purely earthly means of sur
port, might be fully realized, tn
emphatic declaration is made, vel
%, that mo man q serve tw
masters :, for either he will hate th
one and love the other or else he wi
hold to the one and dispise the othel
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Here idolatry is contrasted with tru
worship and the one declared to b
incompatible with the other. Man
mon may not have been an origins
NEUROLOGICAL deity, but that term
evidently used by the Savior to syn
bolize inordinate desire for wealtl
and as to such idolatry, the disciple
we're commanded not to bestow upo
it wen as much as a thought.
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